disorientate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from disorientation.
Verb
[edit]disorientate (third-person singular simple present disorientates, present participle disorientating, simple past and past participle disorientated)
- Alternative form of disorient
- 1941, Frederic William Eggleston, Search for a Social Philosophy, page 254:
- Ideas often disorientate a system which has been formed on a particular pattern and make it inapplicable; so ideas may lead to the readjustment of groups and sometimes of political boundaries.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to cause to lose orientation or direction — see also disorient
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Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]disorientate
- inflection of disorientare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]disorientate f pl